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Bug #4533

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atacontrol missing from bootable images

Added by Tobias Wolter over 9 years ago. Updated over 9 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
03/18/2015
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Description

Cheers,

when trying to install the system on some slightly older hardware, the installer uses /sbin/atacontrol. Which fails, as /sbin/atacontrol is not present, leading to the slice not being created and everything being rather unusable in the installation.

2.1 did not have this problem (and has /sbin/atacontrol)


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installer.log (27 KB) installer.log Tobias Wolter, 03/18/2015 07:30 AM
Actions #1

Updated by Jim Pingle over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Rejected

Where are you seeing atacontrol being used during the installer? I can find no trace of it in the repository.

atacontrol is gone because the old ATA drivers are gone from FreeBSD 10.x, the new drivers are CAM-based and use camcontrol now and not atacontrol.

Likely, you have some other unrelated issue. Please start a forum post for diagnosis/discussion until a bug is confirmed.

Actions #2

Updated by Tobias Wolter over 9 years ago

Well, I kind of disagree on it not being in the repository: https://github.com/pfsense/bsdinstaller/blob/b847c4c017402b9ce6ef3d2bb85a7adcba969272/src/backend/installer/fn_diagnostic.c#L314

Compare attached BSD Installer log file to see it failing. From what I can tell the installer assumes slice 1 should be there, but it doesn't exist as the drives are blank.

Actions #3

Updated by Jim Pingle over 9 years ago

The error is not related to your actual problem. Please start a forum thread for discussion/diagnosis.

The actual error at the end of the log is indicative of the real problem and it isn't related to that other error. Typically that last error is from a controller quirk (e.g. https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting#.22Fake.22_RAID_cards_with_a_GRAID_error ) - follow up on the forum for more.

Actions #4

Updated by Tobias Wolter over 9 years ago

Ah, sorry about that; it actually was the kern.geom.raid.enable switch that helped, thanks!

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